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Chicago examiner Chicago february 5 1913 wednesday registered in pripf d\'f tfnt delivered by carrier u s patent office rr\h wl>l 1-<i 1 w - 0 cents her montlc vol xi no 39 a m wednesday graded income thx democrat plan to reach huge wealth experts in congress declare graduated method would draw bulk of revenue from the immensely rich also supported as affecting william waldorf astor and others self - expatriated decision delayed by tariff washington feb 4 the income tax experts in congress who have caught the pirit of the authorized amendment are urging the ways and means committee to report in favor of a graduated tax this will permit the burden to fall lightly on men of small incomes and draw the bulk of the revenue from the i'ockefel lers astors vanderbilts morgans et al it is their argument ihat there should he commensurate pay for the protection of the persons and properties of such men s john d kockefeller william rocke feller j pierpont morgan george f baker george w perkins andrew car negie and others whose great interests have been the special care of the govern ment for many years men of lesser means and interests do not receive the ame amount or protection because they o uot need it aims at expatriates under a graduated income tax william waldorf astor and other rich americans v ho have evpatriated themselves but who draw their incomes from investments in the united states will be forced to pay heavier taxes than would be collected from them under the straight rate i through the administrative machinery of the proposed law the incomes of men not now residents of this country could be reached through their agents who col â– "_ lect those incomes and who must live here there would he little difficulty in the opinion of representative hull of tennes see the income tax expert of the ways and means committee in reaching the in comes of men of invested active wealth the difficulty will come when it is de sired to learn the incomes derived from idle and hidden capital foreign countries ln their effort to enforce the income tax against such incomes have found diffi culty and administration of the law has proved costly with a view to an ex periment it is probable the ways and means committee will recommend to the next house the levying of a 1 per cent tax on incomes in excess of i,ooo a year with the 000 exemption congressman hull's view j representative hull says this is the easiest tax to eoleet as nearly as we can estimate such a tax will produce iu revenue about 51u0.000.000 it may produce more than this amount because there are few statistics upon which to base an estimate all available informa tion will be gathered by the committee i before the tax rate is fixed ! the income tax rate will not be fixed . until all the tariff bills have been passed 1 by the house it may be that the house democratic leaders will hold the bill back until the senate shall have acted oh the tariff bills and the house tariff frauiers can form an estimate of the revenue needs f the government resul'ing from the con dition of the tariff bills after they have been doctored in the senate and fashioned ln conference between the house and sen ate the income tax rate will be fixed by the house ways and means committee at a point where estimates show that it will produce about the revenue that may be lost by the reduction of tariffs on various chedules chairman underwood of the ways and means committee said to-day jgf cannot tell what will be the attitude fthe committee with respect to the in come tax it will require a careful con sideration and members of the committee have been busy with the tariff hearings on the custom house schedules consid eratiou of the income tax proposition will come later proclamation in fortnight the proclamation making the iucome tax amendment a purtton of the constitu tion will be issued fcy president Taft and promulgated by secretary of state knox within a fortnight as soon as lhe ratifica tions of west vir_inia delaware wyo ming and sew mexico all en route to washington reach tho state department eretary knox w*lll draw up the proclama tion which will be signed by the presi dent and the isixteenth amendment will be added to tliie constitution telegrams arnouncin the ratifications were received ____ i : , 72,000 graft by one policeman in 5 years confession in new york indicates collections by system of over 650 000 new york feb 4 â€” the collection by one policeman of s7-.000 in graft in five years was disclosed to-day by the confes sion of patrolman eugene fox lo district attorney whitman fox says be was but one of eight or ten collectors in his dis trict and that his collections were confined to fifteen or eighten disorderly hotels upon his figures it is estimated that be tween 630,000 and 750,000 was collected by the system in five years fox plead jed gnilly lo bribery before justice goff j i mondaj j the size of the graft collected by the | system is apparent wfyen it is remembered i that fox's operations were in only one of ihe seventy-nine precincts ln manhattan and the bronx and by no means in police â– parlance the fattest one from further evidence the district at torney will be iu a position on monday to ask for the indictment of captain thomas w walsh for five years captain of the one hundred and twenty-sixth precinct to whom fox says he gave his collections a former police inspector and several hotel proprietors du pont in battle to change child's name struggle in delaware legislature is expected to reveal divorce secrets dovbgu del feh 4 there were im portant developments late to-day in the attempt to have the legislature change the name of alfred victor du pout eleven-year-old grandson of alfred i du pont wilmington wealthy vice president of the du pont powder company after the house this morning passed the bill unanimously an effort to have it railroaded j i hrough the senate was defeated the significance of the whole thing lies iu the belief that alfred i du pont is back of the affair as a move against his divorced wife bessie larduer du pont mother of the boy with whom the child lives the bill was brought lo dover e__jrjla.y by thomas hayard lieisel a lawyer of wilmington who was attorney for made leine du pont bancroft in the suit for divorce brought against her by john ban croft jr in wilmington a year ago young bancroft got a divorce on stat utory grounds and secured a decision that his wife's infant son was illegitimate amundsen shivers in real cold at evanston explorer's audience says his teeth rattled as the mercury dropped in the suburb captain itoald amundsen who went out in his shirt sleeves one fine morning and discovered the south pole was suffering with cold last evening in the evanston congregational church women with their throats bare and not much of anything over their arms and shoulders sat quite comfortably in the i pews listening to amundsen's interesting narrative of his polar adventures lie had braved such temperatures as 75 degrees below zero without flinching he had perspired in the torrid atmosphere of 15 degrees below but persons in ihe audience declared positively last night that they saw him shiver lust before the lecture captain amundsen had been entertained at dinner hy henry j paten of evanston czarevitch is recovering heir to russian throne free of pain after injury to knee special cable to tlie examiner st petersburg feb 4 the czare vitch alexis cannot yet straighten his left leg at the knee because of the injury he received recently but dr derevcnko in attendance on the heir to the throne at the palace ot tsarskoe selo say his young patient will soon be himself again tlie czarevitch is free from pain and takes a drive daily consequently all the member of the imperial family are in high spirits lloyd george hurts hand special cable to the examiner london feb 4 â€” lloyd george ap peared in the house of commons to-night with his arm in a sling it appears he slipped and fell and fractured the small bone of his thumb while trying to save himself it is reported the mishap oc curred at a fashionable skating rink plan of cooley for vocational schools rejected Illinois organizations confer ence favors system of fered by mrs young state law is framed measure is drawn by presi dent james ofthe univer sity of Illinois a heavy blow was dealt tlie edwin i cooley plan for vocational schools in chi ago yesterday when a conference of illi nois organizations reported in favor of mrs kla ria.ee young's idea as a substitute mrs young holds that vocational train ing should be given in the present school system mr cooley formerly superintend ent of schools who spent a year in eu rope studying the question of vocational raining recommended separate vocational institutions the conference has prepared a bill which provides that the state shall pay one-halt of the cost of vocational training in the present school system and that vocational instruction shall he given not merely in cities but also in the country districts where practical agriculture may be taught represented at the conference the following organizations were repre resented at the conference the Illinois bankers association Illinois federation of commercial clubs Illinois state federa tion of labor Illinois state teachers as sociation Illinois manufacturers associa tion lustitute of commercial law and criminology all the universities and normal schools in the state the city club the commercial club the civic federation of commerce and the women's clubs during the earlier discussions of voca tional training there had been many clashes between mrs young and mr cooley mrs young contended always that the present school system was com petent to handle the additional work of vocational training but mr cooley formerly superintendent of schools who had been employed by the commercial club to spend a year in europe studying the subject was con vinced that the only way in which voca tional instruction could be given thor oughly and effectively would be in sep arate schools built and maintained for the special purpose drawn by president james the conference held sessions in Chicago springfield and champaign president felmley of the normal school at normal finally made the motion that the cooley idea should be eliminated and that mrs young's should prevail president james of the iniversity of Illinois drew the bill b f harris of champaign was chair man of the conference those v.'no partic ipated in the discussion on the bill were president james frank t mann repre senting the fanners institute o j kern representing the school superintendents of the state k r avright president of the state federation of labor f m leavitt of the state teachers federa tion f g blair superintendent of pub lic instruction alfred baker president l of the city club mr cooley and av c i graves representing julius psenvrald and president felmley man of 63 born again brain operation leaves patient in condition of baby denver colo feb 4 luther diouue sixty-three is literally being born again following an operation december 30 when dr leonard freeman and dr clarence hall removed a tumor from the cortex of his brain for five years he was para lyzed sightless speechless and outwardly dead two weeks after the operation dionne began to move his fingers and toes and was able to lift his arm day by day the rejuvenation continued at the end of ten days he regained his sight but was like a baby and knew no one by degrees he is mastering simple words wisconsin reforms voted assembly by 67 to 12 indorses initia tive and referendum madison wis feb 4 the assembly to-day adopted the resolution providin for the initiative and referendum ln wis consin the resolution was adopted bv a vote of 67 to/12 after considerable debate in which assemblyman i n stewart of appleton attacked the resolution on the ground that in its handling of the initia tive and referendum it was crudely drawn and disconnected the resolution wil not be acted upon by the senate . man 100 years old lost thomas kelly one hundred years old who told the police he believed he lived iu laflin street got lost yesterday when he left the home of his son james kelly he was found at south fori eighth ave nue and west congress street the police are seeking bis relatives ) policeman lends his revolver to shoot op saloon trades his uniform for friend's clothes and laughs at marksmanship two are fined in court trial of patrolman mullen dis closes outrage rivaling oak lawn affair coming right on the heels of the oak lawn police outrage where Chicago po licemen fought and si niggled with women enjoying a peaceable dance and otherwise comported ihemselves in a disgraceful manner there was exposed iu open court yesterday another scandal equally as shameful as the affair in the suburb sat urday night this time the culprit is patrolman james mullen of the irving park station he permitted an intoxicated companion to wear his uniform to take his revolver and club and shoot out the lights in the sa loon of william menck j north clark street the shame of these outrages is empha sized by the fact just at this time the best efforts of each and every member of lie police force is needed to crush cut the lawlessness of the crew of murderers burglars aulo bandits and minor criminals which has made Chicago ils winter head quarters the city is the prey of the den izens of the underworld and meautime hie Chicago police force lias on its member ship rolls men who spend . their time iu drunken carousing with saloon men and their hangers-on police hush up episode the mullen episode happened january 2 but the case w.:is h â– â€¢; â€¢ :;> aij^l i'liglu never have come sn ilgl(t ad not menck pressed his charges in the municipal court yesterday afternoon iu the shef field avenue police court the story first came out mullen and gustave johnson the man to whom the policeman loaned his uniform and pistol were arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct pressed by the saloon keeper menck told judge newcomer that john son and mullen entered his saloon shortly after 9 o'clock at night both menck said were iu*o_icated while in the saloon mullen offered to trade clothing with his companion this was done johnson put on the police uniform buttoned on the police belt and club and took the police revolver mullen donned the discarded clothing of his friend johnson at once be came noisy he abused the barteuder fires twenty shots when menck protested to mullen the lat ter laughed and applauded johnson who then flred twenty shots menck said much glassware was broken patrons of the sa loon lied ( panic-stricken to the street menck himself hid under the counter iu tear of his life finally arm in arm john sod still wear ing the uniform lhe rioters left the sa loon the next day menck swore out the warrants for the arrest of johnson and the policeman chief mcweeny drew charges against the policeman accusing him of unbecoming conduct in the usual course of events these charges would have gone tt once to the civil service commis sioners for trial but the chief held them in abeyance until after the court hearing suppressing the story of the outrage pay fines in court the policeman was flned 10 and costs and johnson who did the shooting s5o and costs both paid their tines meantime the civil service commission set the hearing for the charges against otto klein walter briggs and oscar ericksqn the three policemen concerned in the oak lawn outrage for february 1 efforts to locate u fourth policeman said to have been in the gang of intoxi cated rowdies wil be made at the hear ing james montgomery president of the oak lawn village board is also preparing criminal charges to be filed in the munici pal court againss saloonkeeper t.obert long michael markes charles goldnc-r william harper and william prokup the other members of the gang _ , device to capsize planes i pocket cyclone to destroy them 9,000 feet in air paris feb 4 a pocket cyclone an ascending and deadly whirlwind that can be carried iu a gripsack has been invented by dr cousin or so he claims wlien let loose this small and simple apparatus will cap.-i_e any type of aeroplane even if it has reached an altitude of 9,000 feet this it accomplishes by sending up from the earth disturbances in the air powerful gusts and cross currents of wind in which no aeroplane can live dr cousin a scientist of reputation is entirely confi dent that his storm niovoker will eud the dream ftt super terrestrial warfare 1 cafe ejects countess de cisneros can't get tea in riding habit count and prima donna lose tempers as they storm at f . plaza waiters t â– ; j i j j . .. i .... _ new ytirk feb 4,â€”because she wore a riding habit a clip of tea was refused to countess kleanora de cisneros the prima donna in the plaza hotel restaurant this evening count e cisueros who of course ac companied his wife to the restaurant pro tested stormed ragedâ€”to no avail the countess a distinguished member of the philadelphia-chicago grand opera company and her husband had been riding in the park and wished to refresh them selves with a steaming cnp of oolong they entered the plaza restaurant i regret much to say there is not a table vacant said a waiter bowing but a'tatde is vacantâ€”there!â€”there there exclaimed the count show us to one immediately it is not permitied here to serve tea to serve anythingâ€”to a lady in a riding habit returned the gareon much less re spectfully the american born countess opened wide her beautiful eyes and this in nov york she murmured to her hus band send the head waiter to me count de cisneros ordered peremptorily the head waiter came he repeated the restaurant's edict inexorable as the laws of the mede3 and persians the count was losing his temper he told the waiter in very plain french what lie tiio-ight of him and of the fact that a woman in a riding habit although es corted by her husband was not permitted to sip a cup of tea there the waiter retorted other waiter gathered a house detective was called â– we were ejected absolutely ejected angrily cried the count in describing the scene such a thing could not have happened jat that hour between s and 11 in any of the best restaurants in loudon paris milan or st petersburg remarked the countess to din in a.riding habitâ€”no not necessarily but let me tell you that j at this moment the very best people in england and the continent are insisting that they shall dress to please themselves and not according to the dictates of res ta.-i'antenrsâ€”but in my own free ann ica ah countess eieanoraae cisneros who teas barred from the restaurant of tin hole flam in yen tori last evening became site wore a riding habit woman gagged in kenosha mystery mrs harvey may found bound and half conscious after attack by masked men one of the strangest adventures that ever betell a woman in kenosha the fash ionable north shore city was made public yesterday when it became known that the police rfre searching for two unknown men who bound and gagged mrs harvey may in the rear of her home 520 cale donia street monday evening and left her semi-conscious the case is without precedent in keno sha as mrs may the victim is unable to furnish the police with either clew or mo tive for the mysterious nssault all mrs may is able to tell is that two masked men attacked her her husband harvey may says he knows no motive for the strange attack according to mrs may's story as re lated by her to the police she was at tacked in the rear of ber home and her hands bound behind her she was found on the floor of her library only half-con scious says two men sei_ed her it was shortly after 10 o'clock monday i evening that 1 was attacked sÃŸid mrs may i was sitting in the library of my home when i heard a uoise at the door that sounded as lf some one was knocking thinking it was my husband who had been absent during the evening i went to the door but could see no one i then went to the corner of the house thinking my husliand was trying to fool me when ! two men seized me one tying my hands ! i behind the while the other held his hand over my mouth i struggled and was j finally able to scream for help when both ! men fled it is impossible for me to give a de j scrlption of the men as they both wore masks and i do not think that they held me more than a few minutes that is all that i remember uutil my niece found me on the library floor niece finds her bound miss lois pedley a fifteen-year-old niece of mrs may who was visiting her at the time said the first she knew of the at tack was when she found her aunt lying half-conscious on the floor with her hands j bound behind her mr may told the police that he could ascribe no motive for the attack and that i he felt positive the men had not planned ! robbery on account ot the circumstances the ke ! uosha police are taking nnusnal interest in the case and hope within the next few days to make revelations l c bliss shoeman dead delaxd fla feb 4 leonard c bliss president and director of the regal shoe company and one of the best-known shoe manufacture's in the country died to-day lie was^l his seventy-eigblh'year manuel eats 6 cent meal ex-king of portugal studies english lodging house fare j special cable to the examiner london feb 4 ex-king manuel of portugal who has been engaged in the i study of municipal administration visited 1 the london county council's lodging bo*.;se ( in drury lane to-day and ate the regular â€¢ meal of stewed steak potatoes and cab bage served for 6 cents seeing the bread t pudding being taken out of the oven he ( asked to taste it 1 gave him a good < slice said mrs gerard tlie proud cook and lie ate every bit of it and said it * was as good as a feast and that he never c tasted any better the knife and fork i he used i am going to tie with rib'-en and , bang up in the kilt-en for luck j turkey's last outpost fired inalues'rush upon capital bulgars set torch to tchatalja only twelve miles from constantinople as mutiny spreads in ottoman army adrianople also in flames is expected to fall in 48 hours when 200.000 men will join final assault dardanelle forts to be taken so greek warships can shell the last moslem stronghold left in europe special cable fo the examiner constantinople feb 4 â€” the town of tchatalja hitherto the outpost of tho bulgarian lines is in t'lamt ; to-night having been fired by the bulgars the bulgarian are making intermittent sallies all along the tchatalja lines i but no battle of any impor tance as yet has been fought seeci-i cable ti !... -_*_*-_â€”-. loxdo.x feb 4 under tiia glare of its last line of burn ing defenses at tchatalja constantinople stands to-night with only a demoralized and mutinous army to protect it from the bulgarian advance adrianople 160 miles to the north is also in flames as its walls crumble under the fire of more than 400 siege guns of the combined serb-bulgarian army on the montenegrin frontier scu tari the last outpost of turkey itt macedonia is succumbing to starva tion and the continuous attack of czar nicholas army capital is terror-stricken with flames spreading destruction through the remnants of the turkish empire in europe with the government torn by dissensions and divided by revolt and the boom of the bulgarian siege guns in its ears constantinople is terror-stricken during the night thousands left the doomed capital and silently made their way into asia . the ancient stronghold of the turk kismet it is the will of allah cry the throngs around the mosques as the heavy boom of siege guns sounds the knell of the sultan's rule in europe all are preparing to flee leaving forever the territory they have held since the fourteenth cen tury the greatest movement of troops kurope lias seen since the franco-prussian war began with the bombardment of adrian ople the fall of this fortress is expected within forty-eight hours when the be sieging force of 00.000 bulgarians and ser vians will re-enforce the allies army at tchatalja for the advance on constant nople powers not to interfere that ti.e powers will not interfere o m _ save the turkish capital was stated at sofia and belgrade to-night it is also declared that the allies will be contett with their victory and will not pursue the turks into asia the only halt in the bombardment o aclrianoplc since the truce ended has bcea to allow the foreigners and the consuls to leave the city this afternoon lit con stantinople the warships of the powers are guarding the foreign quarter and the legations the tchatalja forts which were de pended upon to save the capital are only twelve miles from the city and the only defenses now delaying the - iarsi â– â– â– ' con stantinople by the 8l!i - the bulgarians aisu . ac ou the dardanelle forts object of opening of tha straits t greek fleet tan shell constantinople itself the renewal of hostilities makes no dif ference whatever to the attitude and unity of the powers according to an authori tative statement made in london late to iigt tt is added that vrhtle maintaining arc strictest neutrality the powers are a Chicago and vicinity *****â€”> i â€” generally fair and con mk tinued cold wednesday and jj _ tliursday northwest winds b-flllp s*w mange of temperatures ye-*ter mtÂ§_Â§syj â– *% average 13.3 j __ Â„ keep in touch with the choicest offerings of the Chicago real estate market by reading the want ads in the examiner every day the association of american adver fjf lj tisers has examined ni certified to m v the circulation of this publication the figures of circulation contained in the association's report only are guai-anteeci c c '.-.â– . of american advertisers v'o 2800 whitehall bldg x y city

Chicago examiner Chicago february 5 1913 wednesday registered in pripf d\'f tfnt delivered by carrier u s patent office rr\h wl>l 1- aij^l i'liglu never have come sn ilgl(t ad not menck pressed his charges in the municipal court yesterday afternoon iu the shef field avenue police court the story first came out mullen and gustave johnson the man to whom the policeman loaned his uniform and pistol were arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct pressed by the saloon keeper menck told judge newcomer that john son and mullen entered his saloon shortly after 9 o'clock at night both menck said were iu*o_icated while in the saloon mullen offered to trade clothing with his companion this was done johnson put on the police uniform buttoned on the police belt and club and took the police revolver mullen donned the discarded clothing of his friend johnson at once be came noisy he abused the barteuder fires twenty shots when menck protested to mullen the lat ter laughed and applauded johnson who then flred twenty shots menck said much glassware was broken patrons of the sa loon lied ( panic-stricken to the street menck himself hid under the counter iu tear of his life finally arm in arm john sod still wear ing the uniform lhe rioters left the sa loon the next day menck swore out the warrants for the arrest of johnson and the policeman chief mcweeny drew charges against the policeman accusing him of unbecoming conduct in the usual course of events these charges would have gone tt once to the civil service commis sioners for trial but the chief held them in abeyance until after the court hearing suppressing the story of the outrage pay fines in court the policeman was flned 10 and costs and johnson who did the shooting s5o and costs both paid their tines meantime the civil service commission set the hearing for the charges against otto klein walter briggs and oscar ericksqn the three policemen concerned in the oak lawn outrage for february 1 efforts to locate u fourth policeman said to have been in the gang of intoxi cated rowdies wil be made at the hear ing james montgomery president of the oak lawn village board is also preparing criminal charges to be filed in the munici pal court againss saloonkeeper t.obert long michael markes charles goldnc-r william harper and william prokup the other members of the gang _ , device to capsize planes i pocket cyclone to destroy them 9,000 feet in air paris feb 4 a pocket cyclone an ascending and deadly whirlwind that can be carried iu a gripsack has been invented by dr cousin or so he claims wlien let loose this small and simple apparatus will cap.-i_e any type of aeroplane even if it has reached an altitude of 9,000 feet this it accomplishes by sending up from the earth disturbances in the air powerful gusts and cross currents of wind in which no aeroplane can live dr cousin a scientist of reputation is entirely confi dent that his storm niovoker will eud the dream ftt super terrestrial warfare 1 cafe ejects countess de cisneros can't get tea in riding habit count and prima donna lose tempers as they storm at f . plaza waiters t â– ; j i j j . .. i .... _ new ytirk feb 4,â€”because she wore a riding habit a clip of tea was refused to countess kleanora de cisneros the prima donna in the plaza hotel restaurant this evening count e cisueros who of course ac companied his wife to the restaurant pro tested stormed ragedâ€”to no avail the countess a distinguished member of the philadelphia-chicago grand opera company and her husband had been riding in the park and wished to refresh them selves with a steaming cnp of oolong they entered the plaza restaurant i regret much to say there is not a table vacant said a waiter bowing but a'tatde is vacantâ€”there!â€”there there exclaimed the count show us to one immediately it is not permitied here to serve tea to serve anythingâ€”to a lady in a riding habit returned the gareon much less re spectfully the american born countess opened wide her beautiful eyes and this in nov york she murmured to her hus band send the head waiter to me count de cisneros ordered peremptorily the head waiter came he repeated the restaurant's edict inexorable as the laws of the mede3 and persians the count was losing his temper he told the waiter in very plain french what lie tiio-ight of him and of the fact that a woman in a riding habit although es corted by her husband was not permitted to sip a cup of tea there the waiter retorted other waiter gathered a house detective was called â– we were ejected absolutely ejected angrily cried the count in describing the scene such a thing could not have happened jat that hour between s and 11 in any of the best restaurants in loudon paris milan or st petersburg remarked the countess to din in a.riding habitâ€”no not necessarily but let me tell you that j at this moment the very best people in england and the continent are insisting that they shall dress to please themselves and not according to the dictates of res ta.-i'antenrsâ€”but in my own free ann ica ah countess eieanoraae cisneros who teas barred from the restaurant of tin hole flam in yen tori last evening became site wore a riding habit woman gagged in kenosha mystery mrs harvey may found bound and half conscious after attack by masked men one of the strangest adventures that ever betell a woman in kenosha the fash ionable north shore city was made public yesterday when it became known that the police rfre searching for two unknown men who bound and gagged mrs harvey may in the rear of her home 520 cale donia street monday evening and left her semi-conscious the case is without precedent in keno sha as mrs may the victim is unable to furnish the police with either clew or mo tive for the mysterious nssault all mrs may is able to tell is that two masked men attacked her her husband harvey may says he knows no motive for the strange attack according to mrs may's story as re lated by her to the police she was at tacked in the rear of ber home and her hands bound behind her she was found on the floor of her library only half-con scious says two men sei_ed her it was shortly after 10 o'clock monday i evening that 1 was attacked sÃŸid mrs may i was sitting in the library of my home when i heard a uoise at the door that sounded as lf some one was knocking thinking it was my husband who had been absent during the evening i went to the door but could see no one i then went to the corner of the house thinking my husliand was trying to fool me when ! two men seized me one tying my hands ! i behind the while the other held his hand over my mouth i struggled and was j finally able to scream for help when both ! men fled it is impossible for me to give a de j scrlption of the men as they both wore masks and i do not think that they held me more than a few minutes that is all that i remember uutil my niece found me on the library floor niece finds her bound miss lois pedley a fifteen-year-old niece of mrs may who was visiting her at the time said the first she knew of the at tack was when she found her aunt lying half-conscious on the floor with her hands j bound behind her mr may told the police that he could ascribe no motive for the attack and that i he felt positive the men had not planned ! robbery on account ot the circumstances the ke ! uosha police are taking nnusnal interest in the case and hope within the next few days to make revelations l c bliss shoeman dead delaxd fla feb 4 leonard c bliss president and director of the regal shoe company and one of the best-known shoe manufacture's in the country died to-day lie was^l his seventy-eigblh'year manuel eats 6 cent meal ex-king of portugal studies english lodging house fare j special cable to the examiner london feb 4 ex-king manuel of portugal who has been engaged in the i study of municipal administration visited 1 the london county council's lodging bo*.;se ( in drury lane to-day and ate the regular â€¢ meal of stewed steak potatoes and cab bage served for 6 cents seeing the bread t pudding being taken out of the oven he ( asked to taste it 1 gave him a good < slice said mrs gerard tlie proud cook and lie ate every bit of it and said it * was as good as a feast and that he never c tasted any better the knife and fork i he used i am going to tie with rib'-en and , bang up in the kilt-en for luck j turkey's last outpost fired inalues'rush upon capital bulgars set torch to tchatalja only twelve miles from constantinople as mutiny spreads in ottoman army adrianople also in flames is expected to fall in 48 hours when 200.000 men will join final assault dardanelle forts to be taken so greek warships can shell the last moslem stronghold left in europe special cable fo the examiner constantinople feb 4 â€” the town of tchatalja hitherto the outpost of tho bulgarian lines is in t'lamt ; to-night having been fired by the bulgars the bulgarian are making intermittent sallies all along the tchatalja lines i but no battle of any impor tance as yet has been fought seeci-i cable ti !... -_*_*-_â€”-. loxdo.x feb 4 under tiia glare of its last line of burn ing defenses at tchatalja constantinople stands to-night with only a demoralized and mutinous army to protect it from the bulgarian advance adrianople 160 miles to the north is also in flames as its walls crumble under the fire of more than 400 siege guns of the combined serb-bulgarian army on the montenegrin frontier scu tari the last outpost of turkey itt macedonia is succumbing to starva tion and the continuous attack of czar nicholas army capital is terror-stricken with flames spreading destruction through the remnants of the turkish empire in europe with the government torn by dissensions and divided by revolt and the boom of the bulgarian siege guns in its ears constantinople is terror-stricken during the night thousands left the doomed capital and silently made their way into asia . the ancient stronghold of the turk kismet it is the will of allah cry the throngs around the mosques as the heavy boom of siege guns sounds the knell of the sultan's rule in europe all are preparing to flee leaving forever the territory they have held since the fourteenth cen tury the greatest movement of troops kurope lias seen since the franco-prussian war began with the bombardment of adrian ople the fall of this fortress is expected within forty-eight hours when the be sieging force of 00.000 bulgarians and ser vians will re-enforce the allies army at tchatalja for the advance on constant nople powers not to interfere that ti.e powers will not interfere o m _ save the turkish capital was stated at sofia and belgrade to-night it is also declared that the allies will be contett with their victory and will not pursue the turks into asia the only halt in the bombardment o aclrianoplc since the truce ended has bcea to allow the foreigners and the consuls to leave the city this afternoon lit con stantinople the warships of the powers are guarding the foreign quarter and the legations the tchatalja forts which were de pended upon to save the capital are only twelve miles from the city and the only defenses now delaying the - iarsi â– â– â– ' con stantinople by the 8l!i - the bulgarians aisu . ac ou the dardanelle forts object of opening of tha straits t greek fleet tan shell constantinople itself the renewal of hostilities makes no dif ference whatever to the attitude and unity of the powers according to an authori tative statement made in london late to iigt tt is added that vrhtle maintaining arc strictest neutrality the powers are a Chicago and vicinity *****â€”> i â€” generally fair and con mk tinued cold wednesday and jj _ tliursday northwest winds b-flllp s*w mange of temperatures ye-*ter mtÂ§_Â§syj â– *% average 13.3 j __ Â„ keep in touch with the choicest offerings of the Chicago real estate market by reading the want ads in the examiner every day the association of american adver fjf lj tisers has examined ni certified to m v the 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